Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist between 1731 and 1737, she became his chief patron and adviser. Between 1732 and 1738 he wrote 175 letters to her, 94 of which have been published. Sometime after the death of his wife in 1755, Griffith Jones went to live at Mrs. Bevan's home at Laugharne, where he died 8 April 1761, bequeathing to her the funds of the schools and his private fortune, totalling £7,000, with instructions to carry on the
CADWALADR, ELLIS (fl. 1707-40), poet names, that he had received a good education. There are many of his poems in manuscript: NLW MS 4971C: Llyfr John Beans contains about twenty. He won in the chair competition at an eisteddfod held at Bala on Whit-Monday, 1738.
DAVIES family, smiths (1727), and Oswestry church (1738). Other gates and screens attributed to them with certainty are at Plas Coed-llai, Mold; Eaton Hall, Cheshire; Erddig Hall, Wrexham; and Emral Hall, Bangor Iscoed; and with a high degree of probability, gates at Castell Coch, Welshpool; Abbey House, Shrewsbury; Malpas church, Cheshire; Carden Hall, Malpas; Plas Llan-rhudd; and a number of others.
DAVIES, EVAN (fl. 1720-1750), almanac-maker lived at Manafon, Montgomeryshire. He published a series of almanacs under the title Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser. The first appeared, perhaps, in the year 1738, and the third in 1741. They were published in Shrewsbury by T. Durston and include some good poetry and a little history. By this time, Evan Davies is little more than a name and his almanacs are scarce.
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister Neath, and kept a school there; Lewis Rees was brought up under his pastorate. But he was a tireless itinerant, of the new 'evangelical' type of Dissenter, and preached throughout the Glamorgan hill-country (and indeed within a still wider ambit), founding a church at Llanharan (c. 1734) and penetrating into the Rhondda valleys. About 1738 he left Blaen Gwrach, founded a church at Cymer (Porth), and
DAVIES, JAMES (d. 1760), Independent minister 'missionary' type of Dissenter. He itinerated vigorously in north Glamorgan and Monmouth (Edmund Jones, History of Aberystruth, 99, and diary for 1773), and on the inception of the Methodist movement welcomed it warmly, inviting Howel Harris to preach in the Glamorgan hill-country; there are two letters of his (138 and 145, both of 1739) in the Trevecka collection at N.L.W. In 1738 the Arminian wing at Cwm
EDWARDS, JOHN (1692? - 1774), parish clerk and poet son of John Edwards and his wife Elinora (?). He was christened in 1692 in the parish church of Manafon, Montgomeryshire, and there in 1730 he married Catherine, daughter of Evan Evans, Cwm-yr-annel, Carno. He was parish clerk of Manafon for fifty years. He wrote englynion and carols, some of his work being published in Evan Davies (Philomath, fl. 1720-50) of Manafon's almanac, 1738, and some in
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet seven years in London as a bookseller's assistant - this is supported by the controversy between him and Jonathan Hughes. Cain Jones, the almanac-maker, was his son and, according to Charles Ashton and others, John Edwards too was an almanac-maker. He was one of the poets who took part in the eisteddfodau of the 18th century - Bala 1738, Glyn Ceiriog 1743, Selattyn 1748, etc. - and many of his poems
EDWIN family Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, ., 1738, M.P. for Westminster 1742-7, and for Glamorgan from 1747 till his death, 29 June 1756. His wife, Lady Charlotte Edwin (daughter of the 4th duke of Hamilton; she died 5 February 1774), is a figure in early Methodist history, and finds a place in the biographies of Lady Huntingdon and of George Whitefield, and the journals of John Wesley. It was she who presented David Jones (1736 - 1810) to the
EVAN(S), LEWIS (1720 - 1792), one of the earliest Calvinistic Methodist exhorters in North Wales Christened 18 February 1719/20, son of Evan Lewis of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, but removed when very young to Crugnant, Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire, where he became a weaver. On a visit to Trefeglwys, 4 November 1738, he was converted by a sermon of Howel Harris's. He then went to some of Griffith Jones's circulating schools around Llanllugan, and began to exhort as a Methodist. At the
EVANS, THEOPHILUS (1693 - 1767), cleric, historian, and man of letters Newcastle Emlyn. In 1728 he resigned and was made rector of Llanynys cum Llanddulas, Brecknock. In 1738 he resigned and was given the living of Llangamarch, Brecknock, which was joined with Llanwrtyd and Abergwesyn. About the same time he was made domestic chaplain to Marmaduke Gwynne of Garth. In 1739 Llanfaes, Brecon, was added to his other livings. In 1763 he made over Llangamarch to his son-in-law
FOULKES, PETER (1676 - 1747), scholar and divine instituted rector of Cheriton Bishop, Devon, in 1714 and vicar of Thorverton, 1716. His first wife, Elizabeth Bidgood of Rockbeare, Devon, whom he married in 1707, diedin 1737. In December 1738 he married Anne Holwell, a widowed daughter of bishop Blackall of Exeter. While still an undergraduate he published, in conjunction with John Freind, an edition of Aeschines against Ctesiphon and Demosthenes on the

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